Motivation

During last class of Organization behavior, we studies motivation factor. There are 3-4 good studies – namely

1. Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
2. Alderfer’s ERG Thoery
3. Motivation-Hygiene Theory
4. McClelland’s Theory of needs

There was one theory I could easily co-relate was “syndrome of setup to fail”. There is HBR article on what are exact situations in which boss setups a employee to fail by setting up wrong expectations, by making assumptions, losing confidence etc.

Apart of that, towards end of class, we did a survey (Hackman and Oldham)  of rating individuals on their own motivation factor from job. There was question set of 25 – each divided into following factors.

1. Skill Variety (SV)
2. Task Identity (TI)
3. Task Significance (TS)
4.  Autonomy (AU)
5. Feedback (FB)

This study further uses a formula to calculate individual’s Job motivation factor. Secrete formula is

( SV + TI + TS )

Total =   ———————    * AU * FS

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Note: How autonomy and feedback pay a multiplier effect in individual motivation and how largely any organization ignores it. But it is really possible for any Org to function with genuine feedback? Let try!